The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad - Hardcover

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The Penelopiad - Hardcover

The Penelopiad - Hardcover

by Margaret Atwood
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by Margaret Atwood (Author), Philip Pullman (Afterword by)

20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHORAND AN AFTERWORD BY PHILIP PULLMANNow that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making . . . So I'll spin my own thread.Penelope . . . immortalised in legend and Greek myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return from the Trojan war.Now, in Atwood's wise and witty retelling of the myth, Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.

Author Biography

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008. In 2017, The Handmaid's Tale was adapted for an Emmy-nominated TV series and Alias Grace was adapted into a Netflix Original.

Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
ISBN9781837260928
Author Margaret Atwood
PublisherCanongate Books
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedOctober 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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